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A few months ago I was engaged in a debate with one individual who wore this avatar:

https://bitcointalk.org/useravatars/avatar_459836.png

Then I started noticing others wearing it, but didn't really think anything of it; it must be some club I'm not invited to join.  Then I stumbled onto two old-timers hurling insults at each other in the Reputation section, which lead me to this topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5121375.0  I noticed that several high ranking members are wearing that avatar.

I believe that at least one high ranking individual is being paid to wear that avatar, but apparently others are wearing it to promote whatever this represents.  Based on the discussion between Foxpup and BayAreaCoins I concluded that Foxpup is a pornographer.  Is this true?  Is that what's being promoted by the avatar?  After learning this I did notice that the fox in the graphic does look sexualized,  I'm asking out of curiosity, and I'm anxious to hear from the people wearing the avatar.  What is it you're promoting?

Foxpup
LoyceV
suchmoon
GazetaBitcoin
apogio
fillippone

OP, what does the text in the avatar say?
try reading it again, but really think about it this time.
does the word "merit" and "cycling" ring any bells?
that's the answer you are looking for.

https://i.postimg.cc/CLpmP5z4/Chat-GPT-Image-Jun-1-2025-05-23-03-AM.png (https://postimg.cc/dDn2DqR7)

Actually, you've got it backwards. Nearly everyone wearing that avatar is being paid to do so, and only a few have ever worn simply to promote whatever it represents. Even though all it represents is a practical joke that got way out of hand (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5121375.msg50340632#msg50340632). It's just a friendly jab at those who accuse high-ranking forum members of merit cycling, that's all.

Of course it's true. All that porno with my name on it didn't graph itself, after all. :-*

While altersex furry pornography isn't outright promoted by my avatar (except on a few special occasions), everyone in the club understands that I have a reputation to maintain and is supportive of my work.

Be honest, did you ever notice a fox that didn't? :P

Don't forget The Sceptical Chymist (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=487418).

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EDIT: After checking OP's post history, it seems clear he would benefit from seeing what my work represents (it is that time of year again, after all):

https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/screen/5097/5097945_GreymuzzledFoxpup_altersex_nonbinary_pride_panties.png (https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/full/5097/5097945_GreymuzzledFoxpup_altersex_nonbinary_pride_panties.png)

Stay mad, bro. 🦊

Child boards?  Pornographer?  What the sick shit is this?  Did you just out yourself as a purveyor of kiddie porn?  Did one of the porn promoters just give you 37 merits for doing so?  Or do you folks just think that sort of thing is amusing?


Furry porn?  Never mind, pretend I didn't ask.  Thanks for answering my question.  It's helpful to know where the moral compass of others is pointing before dealing with them or engaging them in debate.


Um, yeah!  Like, every one I've ever seen!  Does it strike you as weird that bestiality isn't my thing?


Noted!


Haha, you have nothing that appeals to me let alone benefit me, I guarantee you that.  No, what you promote and provide is anything but beneficial, but I think you already know that.


Mad?  Not likely.  I will, however pray for you and all those who think it's appropriate, even humorous to promote degeneracy.  

Stay blessed, bro. ♱

Are you for real? If so, you should read Wiki: Child process (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_process).
You're currently posting in Reputation, which is a child board of Trading Discussion, which is a child board of Economy.

What do you think CPFP (Child Pays For Parent) means in Bitcoin? Child labor?

Are you suggesting that the members of Foxpup's merit cycling club exchange pornographic material and get paid for it?
I am really curious to see which post exactly led you to this conclusion.

But, I wanna say, even if I don't think I should really explain myself, that when I talked about the following, I was just messing around:


As a club, there are inside jokes that are all legal and nobody gets harmed by what happens in the foxhole.

Having a good sense of humour is a must for being a club member. Don't forget that the whole idea was at first (as Foxpup said) a joke.

Suggestions:
1. Don't take everything too seriously.
2. Don't believe every single post you read that blames other users.
3. Read other users' post history. The way someone posts explains a lot about their attitude and their overall way of thinking.

Finally, please note the following:
There is a reason why almost all of the members have a good reputation and high (sometimes too high) merit / trust ratings. They are all helpful users and great assets for the forum.

What a way for the OP to make a ridiculous fool of himself for god's sake.

I don't know if you've ever stopped to think that you're making some pretty rubbish accusations against probably the most reputable group of users on the forum (and when I say reputation I mean it as a global concept, not just referring to bitcointalk's reputation system).

The bad thing about forums is that sometimes honest people have to waste their time dismantling rubbish like this. I understand that those of the merit cycling avatar feel challenged but I think the best thing is the mentality nutildah expresses in the neutral tag he has left for the OP. I was going to leave another neutral tag but I don't think it adds anything. I'm going to put the OP on ignore which I think is the best thing to do.

I wonder how OP will react to term "slave/master" and "whitelist/blacklist" without knowing the context.

P.S. The context is digital computing.


All of us know it's inverse of child support :P.

I'm just glad he didn't try to read too much into my username, which at this point can only be considered yet another joke nobody will get anymore. It definitely isn't an indicator of my age, which I'm sure OP will be relieved to learn is well above the age of consent to produce pornography in my jurisdiction.

Reserving my seat in the thread for when OP claims that the gang members are bots considering some posts happen at specific periods of time (the damn flux capacitor keeps leaking...)

Sounds like someone's really struggling with that closet door...

I expected to get roasted for posting this, especially by suckups who don't want to jeopardize their merit train.  What I didn't expect is for some in the merit cycling club to become so defensive.

Am I judgemental?  Of course I am.  Should you care what I think?  No, you shouldn't.  I certainly don't care what's thought of me by a bunch of immoral and ethicless individuals on the Sodom and Gomorrah of internet forums.  We seem to have it all here, gambling, usury, and pornography.  I hope you're proud of how progressive you've all become.

I got into bitcoin to help elevate humanity, end our dependence on Centralized Banking, reduce the power of corruption, end the slave trade otherwise known as "corporate jobs."  I've been blessed immeasurably by my adaptation.  Of course I'm aware of it's uses in illicit and unfavorable trades.  Freedom is an inherent part of our humanity.  We're all free to choose between the path of Supreme Guidance or that of evil.

I asked my question and got my answer.  I considered locking this thread, but I think I'll leave it open and let y'all continue to amuse yourselves at my your own expense.  But, I will ask one more, although rhetorical question before I leave you to it:  

Do any of you have daughters?

Yeah. Not many, but at least one. What does this mean? Where do you wanna conclude?

LOL I'm kinda tempted to show this condescending righteous trollfuckery to my daughter, I bet she'd get a good laugh. But OPSEC.

Well, let's just say that mine isn't able to understand anything just yet. But if she was, she 'd definitely laugh. But I guess we 're wasting our own time, chatting with this troll, no need to waste our children time as well.

No, but I do have a niece, at least presumptively, she being far too young to tell if my gender confusion is hereditary. I'll be sure to let you know if it later turns out I have a nephew. What difference does it make anyway?

Lol, I must admit you do have a relatable and likable sense of humor.  I know what you're trying to do, but it's not going to work.

Despite what nutildah wrote on my feedback page I'm not hear to troll, at least not in this thread.  I didn't intend to embarrass any of you, or scold you, and I didn't mean to come off as condescending.  If none of that was clear, or I overstepped my intentions, then please accept my apology.  I started this thread to ask some thought provoking questions, and I hope some of you consider the answers while being completely honest with yourselves.

God Bless!

The only thing I am hoping, for you, not for us, is that the motive of this thread was that you were afraid that we may have been doing illegal stuff. In this case, I can justify you.

On the other hand, if your motive was that you were insulted by our sexuality, I don't accept the apology, because we have never (I repeat never) been violent, brutal or insulting against any other member.

Finally, you didn't manage to embarrass any of us. You don't have that amount of power over us.

// I will just ignore your question about our daughters, since you clearly asked it trying desperately to make a scene.

"Is it true that Foxpup is a pornographer?" is not a thought provoking question, and answering honestly did not require significant consideration on my part. You should have just asked about my gender like everyone else does, because that question's way more complicated. (Not that I would have answered; I don't like the idea of other people being less confused about my gender than I am. That just wouldn't be fair.)

When you happen to look at a curved line for far too long, the lines around the curves tends to become blurry and the line appears straight. Just anything would make whatever meaning your brain wants to give it when you look too long and deep.

I hope not to take a look at your username tainted_love, even mine isn’t healthy, lol…

Hope this isn’t another religious movement at play because, we’ve got far too many in our world and yet, so much bad shit still gets to mess people up on a daily. I hear end our dependence on centralized banking and I almost felt “oh, it’s Satoshi” but no, Satoshi isn’t used to getting credits and rather than spit this way, dude spits codes, algorithms and data. This type of discussion only slows down progress and consumes valuable time.

I wonder who isn’t guilty of this context of evil… just chew on that and end the self righteous savior thing. Nobody is saving anyone this way. Just anything could appear evil and less evil pending the context you choose.
Some sexualized protest don’t you think…

Always, so long as you don’t willfully hurt your neighbor by your actions, you’re good, it’s what really matters rather than looking at those who sexualize an embodiment this way to be of great evil.

Don’t know where you are actually getting at this but, you really shouldn’t have to come off this way. Does the daughter thing follow through with the original intent of the thread or some provoked response…

you made me laugh
the fact that you don't answer about your gender I don't think it can create problems or confusion
on the internet we are all equal bytes, not identical but similar

the bytes of my name 'babo' are just foxpup bytes, but we are there they are the same bytes
I took "the mentor" manifesto seriously when I started surfing the internet many years ago

In the meantime, over the years, the internet has changed, evolved and been colonised by multinationals and states

THEY are the ones who make differences between religion, gender, ethnicity



for us internet pioneers you are no different from theymos or vod, and your gender is just your private thing
the beauty of the internet that managed to start gcc that managed to give birth to linux

which managed to give birth to bitcoin
the genesis of everything comes from the fact that free minds were able to communicate and organize themselves

Pornography is nothing once you've been to a Cycling Club party, that's all I'm going to say.  

And I guess you missed my name since it isn't on your list.  I'm the one who brings the brownies, and I've yet to hear a single complaint.


Thank you, my furry liegess.

There is so much that is captioned in these statements although, what caught my attention the most is in the last phrase where free minds gets to organize and communicate. That speaks well of codes, them zeros and ones [001001], garbage in, garbage out. It’s all the internet understands and over time, we have people who would try to infiltrate that with some religious and ethnicity syndrome that haven’t done no good to our world.

Lol… you’ve not come into focus just yet,
I guess you will when you start winning some baking contests with them brownies..

And you used to think that a joke with teeth (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5488766.msg63801630#msg63801630) was a weird thing. 8)

You're not perverted enough for this list, it's obvious.

I thought they were sacrificing fox pups on a pentagram, candles and shiet.

Was it all about cycling furry porn? Now I am disappointed.

I expected something extraordinary. Meh

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/06/02/UXr9K1.jpeg
created with grok

I am a dreamer, I am one of the first builders of the primordial internet
I participated in my own way and saw in my own way, like Snowden what was
the house without rules of those who wanted to somehow educate themselves and improve

No one cared if you were a child or an adult, or a woman or a man or a horse.
it didn't matter

what united was the purpose of knowledge, to create a noosphere of minds that thought and created and shaped the future
the internet today is different, it has been colonized
multinationals have planted their flags
but not on the internet but on the minds of those who use the internet

the internet is still free, for those who know how to free themselves.. and like morpheus of matrix, we can show the way, but those who have to cross the threshold must do it alone

Well, I do try to stay under the radar as much as possible which is why I haven't participated in LoyceV's thread all that much.  But jeez, I've been a member of the forum for just over a decade now; how long does it take to get my ass in focus?

Now about the brownies:  perhaps I should add a little more substance to them for future gatherings?  Wink, wink.


Negroid, please.  My level of perversion might have dropped some, but let me tell you that you don't want to retain a high level of such as you age.  People start looking at you in a different light.  There comes a time when one must keep the trench coat zipped/buttoned up and only flash the goods when it's highly probable incarceration might not be the end result.  This is why the Cycling Club's skull-and-bones, witching hour gatherings are right up my alley.

 Op this not the first time the Avatar and it participants have been accused of one thing to another. It was first accused of merit cycling and now you came and accused them of porno. The participants in that project will not promote pornography,
Are responsible and reputation forum users and they know what is good to promote and not. Today you accused them of promoting pornography and next another person will come accuse them with another thing again.
Almost all the participants in that Brand are merit sources and they give merit around the forum equally if they see a quality posts either the person is from their promotional brand or not. They merit quality posts and not trash. Probably you were expecting them to give you merit since they are Merit Cycling Club. Or do you think they only give merits to themselves?
Op create a quality posts and you will receive merits.
Last year there was a pornography Signature Campaign in this forum and people participated in it and promote it until the campaign ended. It is a movie and actors and actresses are making good legit money from it.

You create this thread because of a discussion you saw and not for the Brand. If it was a pornography Foxup was promoting with the others, they would have make it clear for users to click a link because pornography is a business motivated and they need people to watch it either by clicking the link and downloading then they make their money from there but what:
The Sceptical Chemist, Foxpup, LoyceV, suchmoon, GazetaBitcoin, apogio, fillippone is not a pornography related brand and neither merit cycling but Foxpup Personal Brand and I don't think it is a worldwide project.

Haha, what's this? Some sort of public complain? I assure you that you belong deep inside our hearts and we always think of you.

Besides, not being in focus could be interpeted as a great advantage and it definitely requires some serious skills. Even Leo, who is in my opinion astonishing in privacy-related stuff, when we was a member of the club (btw, he will always be), he was a notoriously active member in Loyce's thread.

Everybody has his or her own opinion and what they feel or think. At first I asked myself if this FOXPUP'S MERIT CYCLING CLUB was a signature campaign and I searched to see how they operate and I saw nothing which I just let go, never did I thought of it being a cult group which they have preferred members but thinking that is a porn campaign or whatever OP is saying is something shocking honestly.
Things happen in this Forum but promoting pornography has never been seen here or permitted if not why hasn't theymos included sex thread and all those related sex stuff? If I were you OP (which I don't want to be right now😊) I would delete this thinking and this thread because is not suppose to be.


And these guys you mentioned up there and some you forgot to mention, they are the heroes of this Forum, they are the ones who are making this very place comfortable for we all including you to stay. The efforts they put in day and night has never been easy, sometimes I believe they forget things they are to do for themselves just to keep the dirt's off this Forum.

If you do not know what they are promoting, why rush and conclude that it's pornography? Hell, you just made your assumptions based off of the feeling or idea that the graphic looks sexualized?
Okay, BayAreaCoins and Foxpup have a falling out and must have traded words( I don't really know the story behind those two tho) but you feel that whatever came out of the discourse is enough evidence to prove that Foxpup is a pornographer? Nah, I don't seem to grasp how you think,, Op. So a graphic and how people are joining the club made you feel this? You should have said it's a cult or something then. Maybe when you see my Nick, you'd conclude the worst about me too, eh?

I'm not going to lie. Most people, including myself, don't know why Foxpup is paying reputed forum members to wear his avatar. At first, I thought only merit sources are hired by Foxpup, but I guess apogio is not a merit source. All I know is, Foxpup started the campaign out of ignorance, and she is still paying to wear the avatar.

She says she is against the pay-per-post system, and she pays weekly to wear his avatar. But the avatar does not say anything about it. I often heard that "If you are part of this cycle, the first rule is not to talk about it." Since Foxpup is an OG Bitcoiner, I want to believe she is wealthy enough and can afford to pay people without expecting any financial return. If she can satisfy herself doing it, why not?

Good luck, Foxpup. I like mystery. People create threads here and there from time to time to discuss it. We had some posts in our local thread about it a few weeks ago. We ended up without any conclusion.

I defend foxpup's right to do whatever he wants for even silly reasons
everyone does what they want with their own money

and foxpup didn't tip me for saying this
so whoever is speaking is just very angry or rather, envious

which is worse.. freedom is beautiful

Look for The-One-Above-All AKA cryptohunter you will find your answers  8)

Aw, you're going to make me blush!  And believe me, it takes a lot these days to make a curmudgeonly, cynical, and cranky old chemist bust out some vasodilation in response to a forum post.

BTW, I absolutely suck at privacy, opsec, and the like.  I'm trying to get better, as I see surveillance getting much worse as time goes on, but the damage has probably already been done.  There are a handful of members here who could easily dox me if they wanted to, so I'm sure if some alphabet agency wanted to track me down for whatever, they could.  Note:  I absolutely hate pornography.  That's the truth.

Also BTW, Foxpup has been above and beyond generous with the Merit Cycling Club campaign.  Whatever the Fox's motivations might be, I am grateful to be on the team.  It's got to be the most exclusive 'campaign' currently running, and Foxxy invited me into it based on an off-hand comment I made in a post if I remember correctly.  Talk about luck.


And the second rule of the Cycling Club is, you don't talk about the Cycling Club.  Therefore, you can discuss it until your fingers fall off but you'll never arrive at a proper conclusion.   :D

OP says that the fox in the avatar is sexualized. Wait until he sees this:


 ;D

OP is probably just jealous of not being a part of this privileged club like all of us, nothing else. :) He'll be okay.

Yeah I bet you that this photo is more incriminating than the one on Foxpup's profile and should the Op see it, he may well have a fit.
 
Eh, to correct you. I think it's a bit clear that it's a select few that are in that group, so you including "all of us" makes it seem like the rest of the users on this forum have a VIP access but op was the only one strong enough to have a beef with the queen bee, and as such didn't have an invite to the party.

Everyone is entitled to making their own assumptions concerning how they view a particular subject or thing but it makes no sense to just accuse someone of using their club for pornography without significant proof. That's you tarnishing their reputation.

No, what I meant was the all of us apart from the members of the club are in the same boat (being jealous of not being a part of it), including OP, but he is just a bit more emotional than the rest of us, the kind of emotional that makes the person become negative about something that they can't get. :)

OP, Foxpup is queen of Bitcointalk and the members who've been on this forum know that. The Merit Cycling Club is basically one of the gangs of Bitcointalk and the members of the club are among the most reputed members of the forum.

The Sceptical Chymist, Foxpup, LoyceV, Fillippone, GazetaBitcoin, and a few more reputed members are part of it. As owner and supreme leader of the club, Foxpup is the one who started the club and surely members of the club get paid by Foxpup and there's nothing wrong in that. It's Foxpup's own money it's all right and authority of Foxpup to pay anyone she wants to.

I don't know why you even need to create this thread? What's its purpose? Was it an attempt to get merits or to get attention? If you did it to learn about the club then you may visit this thread (https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=5226757.0), but if you created with intention of getting some merits then that's not the right approach.

Let’s be honest here. It’s not just OP even I would probably feel jealous knowing that just by wearing that avatar they can earn really decent amount. The difference is, I might feel jealeous but I would never do what OP is doing right now. It’s the kind of situation that I accept what they have and I can say that those users truly deserve to be part of that campaign or circle.

For sure, it's not just OP who feels jealous of the members of the Merit Cycling Club there are definitely others out there too. The only difference, like I said is that some would never do what OP is doing now.

Wow, you 're gonna make me blush too. That's another skill we develop in the club. We 're standing in a circle, looking at each other, blushing and feeling delicate.

(at this point, my English stop obeying me, sorry if I butchered the whole english grammar)


That's the case for most people. Privacy is incredibly easily to lose and too hard to maintain. It literally requires one wrong click and... suddenly The Sceptical Chymist becomes John Doe who lives in XXX boulevard.


Why does Foxpup need a motivation to create fake transactions and make everyone believe that the members of the club are getting paid, when in fact Foxpup sends the coins back to herself?
Yes, you can remove me from the club for revealing its biggest secret.

Okay, it's quite clear now. Well, I won't lie to you, I'm not exactly rooting to be a part of the club though. It's not like I've got a thing against them but I think there's those like me who would prefer to stay away from such spotlight. It's a very cool thing to be a part of no doubt but I will not say I'm jealous.. hehehehe

If you are only jealous of the club because of the financial reward that we pay to our queen, then I can only imagine how much jealous you 'd be if you knew the deeper secrets ;)

Yep, that's why I said that he's the kind of person who starts talking negatively about something they can't get. :) Sour grapes, as they say.


Fair enough. The actual worth of it is not in the monetary gains, but being a part of a pack of very reputable members. :)


I know enough, and that's why I'm jealous.  ;D I believe knowing more will only make the feeling stronger.  :D

OP it will do you more good if you tiptoe when you see some things in the forum regardless of your curiosity
I respect the foxpup merit cycling members whenever i come across them because these are highly knowledgeable and reputable members of the forum. Perhaps, the reason why they are just few in numbers. Respect to the Foxpup family :)

What happens in the foxhole, stays in the foxhole.

We cannot say what happens in the club.
I have been attending multiple gatherings, blindfolded, standing still in one angle, and serving various items on a platter.


I also otherwise disseminated the thread with clues about the outside meaning of the club.

It seems this is actually getting interesting the more, because despite you being a reputable member of the Fox Club family, I must confess that I'm still yet to believed what you just stated above regarding all it's weekly payments that has been received from Foxpup as been fake all this while, because to be frankly speaking, I am one of those who has always admired the Fox Club, and everything they positively portrays to represent, including onep of the most reputable members and their huge weekly payouts. But never did I ever believed it's payouts will ever be allegedly tagged fake. Knowing funny well all it's transactions are always visible on the Bitcoin Blockchain.

Man, there's quite a few comments from folks attempting to defend me who seem to have missed the part where I am, in fact, a shameless pornographer. :-\

As this thread demonstrates, most of it actually leaks out, but people either don't notice or are too polite to say anything. :-[

That's it, I now have all the information required to confirm the lascivious nature of your primal desires, foxpoop. We have debunked all your claims of innocence with observable instances of pornography, vile vixen!

With the advent of AI GPT, we should train a LLM based on the posts of cryptocunter & his various alts and then have it post random insults in threads like this one. That way it will be like he never left, because don't we all miss him.

Apparently, the hole needs a protector, a guardian who will protect the holy spirit of the hole, and chase down and hunt those who reveal the dark secrets of it. After all, what's the point of an elite club if every normal person gets to know what happens inside?  :)

There is a Gatekeeper, who is in charge of all entrances and exits. The Gatekeeper is @GazetaBitcoin.

Well, none of us have ever been quite as discreet as we probably should be about what happens in the foxhole. The elistism is in whom I permit to come inside. ;)

I do agree. As long as her campaign or actions do not harm anyone, everything is fine. If she has enough money to spend and that satisfies her, I am with Foxpup. But I don't think anyone is complaining because of this campaign. People are more curious to know what the purpose of this campaign is and what benefit she is getting from the campaign.

Personally, I don't see any kind of benefit she might get, but satisfy herself. People should be okay with that. They are just curious, including me.

as my friend Cetto Laqualunque says, holes always bring joy



I would like to answer with a famous saying from my area
l'uccello in gabbia canta per invidia o per rabbia - the caged bird sings out of envy or anger

of course i mantain italian version for understand the rime bbia

in any case these outbursts of envy always make me laugh a lot





I am also envious of the club, without a doubt, I would also like to join this elite club where we have fun
but unlike the others I don't sing out of anger but I try to improve so that I become worthy of entering :)

I guess the gatekeeper must have slept for a split second, which is when OP managed to peek inside, and that's why he created this thread, accusing @Foxpup of being involved in pornography and promoting the same through the avatar campaign. :)


Gosh, I hate my mind.  ;D They must be very lucky to have that privilege. :)

I didn't understand any of it. However, I am okay. I'm not sure if you compared Foxpup to a caged bird. I didn't understand what you were trying to explain very well. As you probably mentioned in another thread, you and sarcasm don't mix well. Similarly, I often struggle to understand when people speak metaphorically. Regardless of what I said, I stand by it. If she has enough money and chooses to spend it to satisfy herself, then why not? She is not harming anyone in the forum.

Yes, I guess you're not alone to hate your mind. The luckiest ones who deserve the rewards may be the ones who get such access. Huge respect for that Foxpup, her words are really straight forward and with the best touch of humor. ;)

Didn’t know foxes had 8 nipples! That’s news to me, at least I learned something today, LOL  ;D

I'm confused. You say "accuse" as if it's not true that high-ranking forum members cycle merits between each other when:

1) You said that is what is done. It doesn't seem like a joke in this post: 


2) bpip strongly validates what you said here

Though let me be clueless for a moment and just ask some clueless questions, as if I just got here and believe that the merit cycling club is nothing more than a joke, and that you care about the integrity of the mechanisms that rank people in this community:

1. Do you think that merit abuse is a real thing and that (high ranking) members are farming alt accounts for profit through things such as signature campaigns?
2. Do you think that merit abuse is a real problem that has enabled bad people to become influential/profit excessively from the forum?
3. If you think either of the above are true, who do you think are the culprits?

Since you are someone who has been on the forum for so long (and clearly has an influence over many of the high-ranking members) it would be good to have some genuine and serious insight from you.

Only the red ones. Some might even have up to 16.  :)

https://talkimg.com/images/2025/06/06/UXWgjg.png (https://potterparkzoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Mammal_Arctic_Fox.pdf)

Note: Click the image to read it from the original source.

Do note that I neither became defensive nor engaged in roasting any part of you, even though you overlooked my inclusion in the Merry Psycho Cunt initially.

Also note that I read threads backwards and is the reason why I'm just now responding to this here post.

Tainted Love, eh?  I read somewhere that the lead singer of Soft Cell (Marc Almond) was into some seriously kinky BDSM activity during the band's heyday.  There's some irony here, though the electromagnet in my head doesn't seem to be turned on; I can't find the switch; and I will leave it to the more perceptive to decipher what it is that I may or may not be saying.

in fact I didn't compare foxpup to the angry bird that sings in a cage
I compared those who have something to say about what he does
the angry bird in the cage sings angrily out of envy ;)

I repeat, everyone is free to do what they want until their freedom meets mine, so threads like this are useless in my opinion

From what I've been able to deduce in all you've said from the op till now is that you can't appreciate humour and I doubt you have a humour bone in you. Heck, life's too short to take it too seriously. You have come up here to spew justice like Paul back when he was Saul and persecuting the christians thinking he was doing something good. It may no relate to you but the fact still remains that you're being too judgmental with the whole thing but if you could just get off your high horse, you'd find that all your presumptions about what Foxpup's Merit cycling club is really about are just presumptions cooked up by you.

The person in question has deigned to give you a response, a brief summary of what goes on over there since it appears you're not just curious but are downright accusatory but your desperate need to keep this forum so clean and rid of Sodomites as you put it is what's stopping you from seeing the explanation.

 "A problem shared is a problem halved"

@OP, I’ve been seeing the fox-on-a-bicycle avatar for years and never thought there was anything sexual about it. I’m not into pornography, but to me, it just looks like a normal, harmless image -- obviously nothing like Vod’s avatar with the guy licking his own nipple :D.

I also don’t believe any of the fine gentlemen or women using it are trying to promote anything inappropriate. It’s just a way for them to earn a bit of extra income from an idea that started years ago during the Cryptohunter era.

pretty sure it is porn not that i am into cartoon fox nudes.

Not a club for me.

but if people like it its okay by me.

Doesn't porn mean having two or more people/animals indulged in intimate physical activities? Or even if it's one person/animal, there should at least be some tool/toy or hands involved that are being used to achieve pleasure. :) Mere nudity, especially in case of animals, shouldn't be considered porn since they don't wear any clothes anyway.

Now, even if that cycle has something fixed in its seat, we can't know and hence can't assume that there is, because it has no visibility for us.  :D

What the op what's to make the pic on Foxpup's profile look less sexual is for the animal to where clothes and continue her cycling. At least, running shorts would help preserve his eyes from viewing that ungodly pic. I really don't understand how the picture looks sexual though. No matter how I turn my phone, I'm still not grabbing.

I’ve never watched cartoon or animal porn, to be honest, and I still don’t see any pornish characteristics in the image. You made me doubt my sanity, so I had to ask AI

I don't think so or rather I have never seen it in that way for once. All I see is a fox on his cycling bike.

I would've known because I am someone moved by even the slightest things relating to that  ;D

Finally, a reasonable utility for AI.

To be fair, the fox is naked. Don't see any clothes on it. I have seen the picture of the fox with the many nipple tassles; once you see it, you can't forget it.

To address what seems to be becoming a point of confusion, the avatar is entirely non-pornographic, contrary to OP's assertion that it is somehow "sexualised". If you find yourself spending a little too much time thinking about the saddle's proximity to my naked sweaty hind parts, that's on you. (Well, unless you were thinking about that one time I suffered an anatomically implausible cycling accident (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5207683.msg64504342#msg64504342), but that was fillippone's fault, not mine. :-[)

The actual pornography associated with the Merit Cycling Club is typified by the celebratory anniversary threads I post every year, most recently this one (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5535040.0) (NSFW). Admittedly it's just my fursona posing suggestively, but I think this particular suggestion is sufficient to meet the criteria for pornography (certainly I agree that mere nudity doesn't).

in my long experience, I just think that those who have problems with something tend to take the prohibition to extremes
for example, I'm comfortable joking about sexual misunderstandings with males, since I'm completely comfortable with homosexuals
only those who have a sort of frustration feel, so to speak, offended by light-hearted (not heavy) jokes and pranks

life is shit enough not to take ourselves, our bodies and our sexuality lightly and make fun of it.

in fact I don't get offended if they make fun of me slightly (in a good-natured way) on the contrary I laugh heartily if the jokes are witty and refined

this is my point of view of course

Why spend time clarifying your fetishes and confusion about what is/isn't sexual about your online persona over responding to what actually means something to this community? Did you not see this post, or did you intentionally ignore it?